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Is there any animal, closely related to humans that a human can breed with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Subject6051@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Ok, I am not supporting bestiality here. But, I just came to know about a Dogxim, a dog fox hybrid and I had known for a long time that horses and donkeys can breed (to produce a mule). So, I was just curious, can humans breed with any other animals closely related to us?

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There used to be Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and a few others, we basically interbred them out of existence.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

While we did fuck them a lot, knowing us, I don't think that's what caused their extinction.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not so sure, except for a last few holdouts in Spain about 40k years ago, who were probably whipped out by natural catastrophe along with regular humans in that area.

I think we kept diluting their gene pool by having sex with them and out breeding them.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

With everything you know about humans and our history of causing mass extinction everywhere we settle, of racial violence and irrational fear of anything that is a little bit different, you really don't think there were any other contributing causes to the mysterious extinction of EVERY SINGLE NON-HUMAN HOMINID ON THE PLANET?

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

For most people, except sub Saharan Africans, we are also talking about our ancestors when talking about neanderthals. Most of those bones we see on museums are probably the great x grandfathers of many people walking past.

Obviously we have no idea what happened over huge parts of deep human pasts, Neanderthals were a sparse population to begin with, and absorbing their people into the rest of humanity just by fucking is certainly a solution

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? We are still around.

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